Tag: colorwork

How the starry meadows chart might look as stranded knitting. Undulating yellow outlines make curvy stars filled with green backgrounds and yellow starry flowers.

Starry Meadows: a charted design for any craft

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This reminds me of stars, but I already have lots of patterns with stars in the name; it reminds a

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dark brown yarn and pale variegated yarn in shades of tan and cream make alternating dark and light patterned stripes. Three quarters of the stripes have a pattern of vertical dots and dashes. The remaining bands are like boxy figure 8s.

Exclamations: a mosaic knitting chart

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

I didn’t know what I wanted to do for this blog post and so I wondered what was a kind

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How the Ease charted design might look as stranded knitting. Vertical bands with wiggly lines as borders and repeated four-petaled flowers or stars alternate with vertical lines of dots.

Ease: a charted design for any craft

Posted on July 1, 2023June 30, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Ease from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Kate, one of my Patreon supporters.

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how quirky excerpt 2 might look as stranded knitting. Dark square boxes are laid out on a grid. There are vertical dark lines between them with occasional blips sticking out to each side, framing the boxes.

Quirky excerpt 2: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 13, 2023June 21, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I looked at the charted design I posted last week for Quirky, I immediately saw that it was made

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How Quirky excerpt 1 might look as stranded knitting: ornate vertical bands with wavy geometric floral patterns alternate with narrow vertical lines with little blips sticking out periodically.

Quirky excerpt 1: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 8, 2023June 21, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I looked at the charted design I posted last week for Quirky, I immediately saw that it was made

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How the Enough charted design might look as stranded knitting. There are horizontal bands of white patterning on a dusty pink background with little arcs of white speckles between the bands.

Enough: a charted design for any craft

Posted on May 26, 2023May 26, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Earlier this week I posted a lace design based on the word Enough. I like to provide a separate, more

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How Starry Bats might look as stranded knitting: stylized bats with arcs of stars in the form of speckles over their heads.

Starry Bats: a charted design for any craft

Posted on May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I was picking out the charted design for Flow, one of the other possible charts had an interesting motif

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How the flow charted design might look as stranded knitting. There are vertical columns of things like railroad tracks alternating with columns that look like short ladders.

Flow: a charted design for any craft

Posted on May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Flow from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Catnach and Nim, two of my

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How the Long Ovals chart might look as stranded knitting. Rows of concentric vertical ovals alternate with rows of the same ovals with the darks and lights reversed.

Long Ovals: a charted design for any craft

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

A shorter version of this oval turns up in a lot of charted designs. I thought I’d see if I

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Depiction of how 2023 needlework might look as stranded knitting. Version 1, at the bottom, reminds me of the angled lines on feathers. Version 2, at the top, looks like flattened diamonds with a speckle in the middle of each one.

2023: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on January 5, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Every year, I design a knitting stitch pattern by charting the digits for the upcoming year. Here is a needlework

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